Word: localness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Service wants to jack up the 208- ft.-tall, 2,800-ton Cape Hatteras Lighthouse and move it half a mile inland, away from encroaching surf. Only 200 ft. of sand now separates the 118-year-old tower from the churning Atlantic. Cost of the proposed move: $8.8 million. Local residents who have grown up in the shadow of the lighthouse are not yet sold on the idea. "They tell us we can't climb the tower anymore because it has cracks in it, but they can pick it up and move it without it crumbling into a pile...
...worked for a little newspaper in West Chester, Pa., called the Daily Local News. And it was just like what you would think the Daily Local News would be. I covered endless hearings. Our favorite verb was air. ZONERS AIR PLAN. HEARING AIRS ZONING. It was classic small-town journalism, and I really loved that job. Then I went to the Associated Press in Philadelphia, and I really, really hated it. Fortunately, I got another job, and I spent the next eight years teaching effective-writing seminars to business people...
...time on my hands, so I asked the editor at the Daily Local News, "Why don't I write a column for you?" I started the column for $22 a week. It was usually very misleading, inaccurate and often quite offensive and irresponsible. Then the Miami Herald offered...
...find them, start by contacting mortgage brokers in your area and letting them know you might be a source of funds. A second possibility: talk to local real estate agents and attorneys, who may frequently encounter buyers in ) search of mortgage money. A third: take an ad in the real estate section offering to buy existing mortgages, typically from home sellers who had to finance their buyers by taking back a mortgage...
Knox Overstreet (Josh Charles) fell in love with a girl from the local public school and got beaten up by her boyfriend, although in the end he won her with poetry. Charlie Dalton took his individualism to the limits, demanded to be called "Nuanda," painted red lightening bolts for fertility on his chest and got kicked out of school for standing up for his convictions. (At the same time however, he tried to use the society to pick up women...